Well, except for Crown Vics. LOL

Thread with my window barriers...

A while back I posted some pick and a few details regarding the custom window guards I had for my old car... My pics are towards the bottom...

Edited by Connie Sutherland (12/30/2012 02:14 PM)
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http://leerburg.com/webboard/thread.php?topic_id=30849&page=2#343810

Those are great!

Jessica! Will he make some for me? Do you know anyone that can??

Shawn Thomas (his wife Ann Thomas is the Western Region DVG contact) made those for me a few years back. Sadly he passed away shortly after...

I have a guy up here in the central coast that can make them, but I'd bet you could find a metal fabricator that wants some side work... I see guys pop up on craigslist all the time looking for a bit of extra cash

They were easy to make and very simply designed. They were attached to the car with airline grade Velcro. This made them removable but for a few small pieces of Velcro that could be peeled off if desired. The metal screen was "sandwiched" between the car door and the frame of the car. That is what gave it the integrity... You could not push it out of place from inside or out. It sat on the door panel with closed cell foam stuff to protect the finish inside. Only issue was that there was a bit of paint scraped up at the top of the car frame where the top of the screen met the finish, but it was hidden with the car door shut and it really wasn't much... Shawn wanted to go back and trim the screen an eighth of an inch, but it was so minimal and already there...

He used two large pieces of poster board to cut out a template and closed that in the door to see how it would fit. At the next training he had the metal screen rough cut and tested it (carefully without shutting the door) for fit and on the third training meeting he had it painted, padded and finished. It was painted with plain spray paint that Quinn scratched off in some spots. I was gonna have it powdercoated to prevent that, but the sold the car. The buyer loved them too and kept them! I assume they are still on the car today!

Now I have the Sierra for the dogs and the 300 for me that the dogs don't go in, otherwise I would have them on that car too!

You should also have "In Case of Emergency" info for your dogs. It's simple to use those brightly colored zippered pencil bags for this sort of info. Stick any pertinent medical info for your dogs as well as emergency instructions and emergency contact info should you be incapacitated in the accident. It's easy to use zip ties to attach those pouches to a crate.

FWIW, I was in a minor accident this past summer. No one was hurt but I was shook up as all get out. I had both dogs with me, in their crates in the back of the car. I was SOOOO glad that I didn't have to worry about them at. all. while we were surveying the damage, calling the police, going over insurance info, etc. In fact nobody even knew that I had dogs in the car until I checked on them 45 minutes into the incident (parked in the shade, all the damage was done to the front of my car and it happened at a low speed so there was no chance the dogs got hurt). If they hadn't been crated (or restrained) that would have been one more thing to think about and they could have hopped out in the excitement and turned a minor incident into something much bigger.

Mara, this is a terrific post.

I have emergency contact info attached to my driver's license, and the top item is who to call to come get my dogs. (Their vet's name and number is on their collar tags.)

But this extra layer of forethought with the easily seen info sounds very good.

I'm thinking it should be very visible to first responders who actually open the car, but not to casual passers-by. I haven't mentally worked out exactly why, but my gut feeling is that I don't want everyone who walks past my car to see that there's personal info, possibly addresses, etc., right there.